![]() “I Will Answer Injustice with Justice”: Adaptation and Simplification. “Best Wear a Pair o’ Floppy Ears”: The Effects of Bad Advice. “To Rule Meereen, I Must Win the Meereenese”: The Self-Serving and Disloyal. ![]() “Only Lies Offend Me, Never Honest Counsel”: The Loyalists. Power through Religion: A Double-Edged Sword.Ĭhapter 8: Daenerys the Unready: Advice and Ruling in Meereen. Women in Power: Martin and Medieval History. The Eastern Woman in Medieval Literature. ![]() “I Choose Violence”: Blowing up King’s Landing in HBO’s Game of Thrones.Ī Song of Wildfire and Chaos?.Ĭhapter 7: ‘All Men Must Die, but We Are Not Men’: Eastern Faith and Feminine Power in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones. But the Good Lords Are Dead and the Rest Are Monsters”: Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister, and the Chivalric “Other”.Ĭhapter 5: The Peaceweavers of Winterfell.Ĭhapter 6: Cersei Lannister, Regal Commissions, and the Alchemists in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire.Ī Brief History of Wildfire.Ĭersei, Wildfire, and the Battle of the Blackwater. Margaery Tyrell: Traditionally Feminine Queenship.ĭaenerys Targaryen: Exceptional She-king.Ĭhapter 4: “All I Ever Wanted Was to Fight for a Lord I Believed in. History Versus Martin’s Constructed “Historical World”: Aesthetics and Politics.įemale Power, Agency, and Advice: Medieval and Early Modern Scholarship.Ĭhapter 1: A Game of Thrones in China: The Case of Cixi, Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty (1835–1908).Ĭixi’s Successions and the Problem of Reform.Ĭhallenging Racial and Gender Norms.Ĭhapter 2: Queen of Sad Mischance: Medievalism, “Realism,” and the Case of Cersei Lannister.Ĭhapter 3: Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in A Song of Ice and Fire.Ĭersei Lannister: Misogynistic Stereotypes of Female Rule. Medievalism and Martin: Are A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Actually All That Medieval? (And, Does This Matter?). Introduction: Cherchez les femmes: Queenship and the Women of Westeros.
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